When I was little I used to think that there was a town living in my stomach.And I thought my belly button was their sewer.

That's why I didn't pick it.

Socks are EBIL

I used to believe that your belly buttons were connected to your intestines, and if you poked your belly button too hard, you could puncture your intestines and die.

Dani

When I was three I saw a National Geographic magazine featuring photos of starving children in Africa with distended abdomens. It got me to exploring my own abdomen-which appeared to have a hole in it (my belly button). I became hysterical thinking that all my food would fall out of the hole, that I would begin to stave to death and that my belly would stick out just like thise kids in the magazine. Everyone in my family had to show me their navel and assure me that their food had never fallen out through it.

robin rc

When I was 5 i thoght otties were buttons to poop and innes were a second mouth

Sam

My dad always told me this really elaborate story about how he got lost in the woods once during the winter and his belly button froze and popped off. We were talking about it recently and he said it was just a story, but I'm STILL not sure if he was really fibbing. I don't think I've ever actually seen his belly button.

Anon

I used to think my belly button was a magic compartment but ive proven myself wrong, that is NOT what is in there, ouch!

poop dawg

I used to belive every baby got there belly button by: god made us people and layed us out to dry. When he was done he poked us and said done done done all the way to the end and where he poked us was were our belly bottons became.

chelsea #7

My Dad's friend convinced me that if I didn't behave he would unscrew my belly button and my arms & legs would fall off. It absolutely terrified me. I would sit very quietly in his house or go outside to play!

Kelly in Colorado

i used to think that if you stuck something in your belly button it would go into your body because i thought that it was a big hole in ur stomach

button

I was a little girlie of 5 or 6 years of age, i believed, that..if you had a outie belly botton that you were an alien. If you wonder why i believed that, its because of the Rugrats.

Hilliary

id used to belive that there were belly button monster eaters

Brandon

When I was about 3yrs, I fell asleep watching "The Wizard of Oz" after eating a lot of popcorn. My dad put a piece of popcorn in my belly button and suddenly woke me up, claiming I ate so much popcorn that it started coming out of me. For years I never had too much food, thinking that it would come out of my belly button.

miss irene

When I was about 3 or 4 I my mom would lay on her bed with me and pull her sweat pants over her belly button and claim it disappeared and pretend to panic. I freaked out every time she did it and even cried some times.

Laura

When my sister was about two or three, my mother told her she has an eyeball in her bellybutton, and she believed she could see out of it.
She used to lift up her shirt to get a better look at things.

Ryn

I loved touching people's belly buttons, one day there was a new girl in my class. She was the only 'chubby' person in my class. I asked my parents why and they told me coz she poked too many people's belly buttons. I dont let anyone go near mine or go near their's.

Anon